I first saw this movie in the late 80's when I was about 14 and it struck a chord with me, especially this demonic bunny rabbit. It's still scary, but fascinating at the same time.
canyon1899 ...heck i was like 6 or 7 when i first saw this! Talk about being freaked out at young age..but still loved it. This story and the airplane one were scariest for me.
Ever notice that the kid in this version was not NEARLY as evil as the one in the original? I mean, society still existed whereas in the original everything was erased except for one area of the world. This kid only wanted people to not be scared of him while the original kid was just a hateful evil SOB you wanted to kill the minute you met him.
Bill Mumy in the original. Brilliant performance for such a young actor. Of course, Bill went on to achieve cultural icon status as one half of Barnes and Barnes, the creators of The Fish- Head Song.
There was a follow up,with Bill Mumy and his daughter. His daughter could bring things back from the cornfield. He had her bring back the rest of the world,and, they went forth to rule it.
Yeah, I really MUCH prefer this version of the story. The first iteration followed Jerome Bixby's short story pretty much to the letter, but I think Joe Dante's version is a very different kind of thing, and he turned into a proper story with a real ending. It was a very Speilbergy kind of ending... but I liked it better. I think it made more sense. This idea of "power corrupts" is very VERY overdone. You can't live without power, power is necessary in order to live and grow and thrive... I think the message at the end of Joe Dante's version was a great deal healthier from a psychological perspective. I liked the subversion. One of the few subversions I do like, in fact
NightmareVF how old are you now? I saw this when I very young too. But it wasn't traumatic, because I got over it when I got older & understood the story better
Everyone was bricking their pants watching this in the 80s lol 😅 🇬🇧 my mate got us everything on pirate ☠️ tape before out on cinema 🎥 my mom loved rocky 1 and 2
Real cool looking creation here, as well as the others that are in this segment, proving that really well designed animatronics can easily look just as good as CGI if not even more realistic looking because it's a thing that's actually physically there in real time with the actors.
It was Rob Bottin, the effects guy from The Thing, Total Recall, and Robocop. All his effects have a really grotesque quality to them, slightly rubbery but still extremely lifelike.
I thought the design of the rabbit was pretty sweet, personally. But, I do agree the buildup was the best part. The animatronics weren't bad at all for what they did with it's reveal.
I love how the goldfish was part of the audience. That totally cracks me up. As for the demonic rabbit - he was AWESOME! Scared me when I saw it in the theater originally. Thanks for uploading this!
My favourite Easter Bunny! I like the way it breathes and how they're all nervous because they know he's literally going to "pull something out of the hat"!
The guy playing the magician actually played another character in the Twilight Serise some time in the 60's. He plays a man who never ages and gets caught out by a Professor at a university he teaches in.
I was 6 when this came out and saw it when I was 8. As bad as this was the Tasmanian Devil with the big teeth and long nose that came out of the TV.....the graphics for that time...traumatizing. Talk about having a kid awake all night 🤣🤣🤣
I was 10. I moved my bed as far as I could from the window and slept with the light on for a month. I really think a lot of us were traumatized as kids by this movie...lol
Can't believe that's Nancy Cartwright far left who went onto bigger fame and fortune as the voice of Bart Simpson on the Simpsons tv series fame. Thought it was kind of funny when her character got eaten by a cartoon character in this segment.
jim68 Hope if her friend and mentor, Daws Butler was living at the time, saw Nancy’s performance in that segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie, he would been proud of her.
The red and blue color gels, the Dutch angles, the fact that the terror rabbit is literally quivering with evil, Jesus Christ. This scared the piss out of me as a little kid.
I wonder whatever became of that animatronic. I'll bet Rob Bottin still owns it. Rob, btw, did FX for John Carpenter's _The Thing_, _The Howling_, _NOES 3_, _Total Recall_, _RoboCop_ and many other films.
Whoever directed this movie is the master of scaring you and messing with your mind without even using jump scares. That bunny and the girls mouth closed haunted me as a kid and still to this day I think of it, but the movie really isn’t scary it just fks with your brain.
@@Elliot_Ignotus bro that’s crazy you say that because gremlins is like the same thing. It really isn’t scary and more funny now when I watch it but that movie always fkd with me as a kid too 🤣 this movie, gremlins, and chucky always stuck with me even over actual scary movies, well sinister got me too
I remember seeing this as a kid. Not the entire scene because I saw the red lighting, the cinematography and I KNEW what was Going to happen so I didn't even attempt to watch it until I got older and this still scares the hell outta me lol.
I watched this scene yesterday afternoon, and it initially startled me, and then when I saw the bunny, I LOL’ed. It was creepy yet also funny in my honest opinion. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Its such a relief that I wasn't the only one that this movie low key fucked with me as a kid. That girls mouth and the bunny. Like the mouth was such a subtle part but somehow it rlly fked with you as a kid and then the bunny was just terrifying im so glad to see I wasn't the only one.
It wasn't until now, in my 40s that I really get the allegory of this vignette. It could be an alcoholic, a narcissist, or some sort of borderline personality that keeps a family hostage. Once this personality has been allowed to have control it's damn near impossible to break free.
Same thing happened to me last night, i was out of it, and this film was on and i was sitting there trying to figure out what the fuck is happening!? I was freaking out. Then I found out The Twilight Zone had a movie... Whattttt. This segment and the plane one with the alien/troll/goblin/gremlin/whatever it was... fucked me up..
Of all the remakes Hollywood does; I would not object to see this updated. It was cool back when I was a kid, I'd love to see what they could do with today's special effects.
I remember having a crush on that helen(guest), she was quite the hammer back then.... and the kid with the powers, the more i look at him, the more he looks like a younger version of ralph macchio, or he could be that kid from the movie, the never ending story.
yes not to mention the Simpsons did an episode paying homage to this,when Bart was the one with the powers lol I always thought that was a cool homage especially when Bart sent Homer into the television just like Ethel(Nancy Cartwright) gets put into the television.
When practical effects beats CGI... hands down.
True
The way it shook was...unsettling
i think the shaking was annoying
*shook me all night long* 🐰
Deep down I think it knew it was an abomination
Man that rabbit was 5 seconds from making that boys uncle a messy bloody meal
@@ColombianCasanova What was annoying about it? LOL!
I first saw this movie in the late 80's when I was about 14 and it struck a chord with me, especially this demonic bunny rabbit. It's still scary, but fascinating at the same time.
I first saw this movie when I was only 6. It terrified the shit out of me, needless to say. This and Dreamscape gave me nightmares for a long time.
canyon1899 ...heck i was like 6 or 7 when i first saw this! Talk about being freaked out at young age..but still loved it. This story and the airplane one were scariest for me.
canyon1899 I can relate to that
Ever notice that the kid in this version was not NEARLY as evil as the one in the original? I mean, society still existed whereas in the original everything was erased except for one area of the world. This kid only wanted people to not be scared of him while the original kid was just a hateful evil SOB you wanted to kill the minute you met him.
Bill Mumy in the original. Brilliant performance for such a young actor.
Of course, Bill went on to achieve cultural icon status as one half of Barnes and Barnes, the creators of The Fish- Head Song.
There was a follow up,with Bill Mumy and his daughter.
His daughter could bring things back from the cornfield.
He had her bring back the rest of the world,and, they went forth to rule it.
Yeah, I really MUCH prefer this version of the story. The first iteration followed Jerome Bixby's short story pretty much to the letter, but I think Joe Dante's version is a very different kind of thing, and he turned into a proper story with a real ending. It was a very Speilbergy kind of ending... but I liked it better. I think it made more sense. This idea of "power corrupts" is very VERY overdone. You can't live without power, power is necessary in order to live and grow and thrive... I think the message at the end of Joe Dante's version was a great deal healthier from a psychological perspective. I liked the subversion. One of the few subversions I do like, in fact
For some reason the girl without mouth in this episode gave me nightmares for weeks when i saw the movie as a little kid
Me too, it was more subtle and unsettling.
That girl is portrayed by Cherie Currie, the lead vocalist of the Runaways.
I loved that scene as a child. Still do. It's so unsettling, and I like how its revealed to the audience but not the lady.
It's a movie but that didn't give me nightmares it was cool and creepy at the same time
No mouth? How did she eat?
I love the late Kevin McCarthy's performance in this scene; his character his barely able to hide his fear of what is going to come out of that hat.
I'm not going to lie... I remember seeing this when I was VERY young... ****ing traumatic
also remember the scene from childhood. I was looking for this film
NightmareVF I watched this for the first time last night and it was traumatizing.
NightmareVF how old are you now? I saw this when I very young too. But it wasn't traumatic, because I got over it when I got older & understood the story better
heheh :D
I loved it when he said uncle walt is going to do a trick while he ate his crisps lol
The series will always be superior. It always manages to be exponentially more frightening or intriging, without the luxury of such special effects.
This scared the absolute shit outta me as a kid!! I’ll never forget this “bunny”- the second one, that is.
Everyone was bricking their pants watching this in the 80s lol 😅 🇬🇧 my mate got us everything on pirate ☠️ tape before out on cinema 🎥 my mom loved rocky 1 and 2
I am 33 years old and I am incredibly grateful I did not see this clip until today.
Real cool looking creation here, as well as the others that are in this segment, proving that really well designed animatronics can easily look just as good as CGI if not even more realistic looking because it's a thing that's actually physically there in real time with the actors.
Well I wish certain things in this movie could have been CGI, as I'm sure many others do.
I see no need for CGI here. All the practical effects in the movie were flawless.
It was Rob Bottin, the effects guy from The Thing, Total Recall, and Robocop. All his effects have a really grotesque quality to them, slightly rubbery but still extremely lifelike.
I mean, cinematic CGI techniques just wasn't that developed back then so practical effects was just the way it had to be.
this movie this scene scared the ever loveing shit out of me when i was a kid thank you
The intro, this and 20,000 feet nightmare worth all the Twilight Zone Movie.
The second rabbit scared me as a kid, and still does now.
That thing looks like something out of American McGee ' s fantasy!
It doesn't scare me now....it did when I was a kid, but not now. I've seen scarier...
I actually thought the buildup was much more scary than the actual rabbit.
I thought the design of the rabbit was pretty sweet, personally. But, I do agree the buildup was the best part. The animatronics weren't bad at all for what they did with it's reveal.
Try seeing it in the theater when you're like 12... scared the fuck out of me! Now it's just really great.
Present-Me: “I’d agree with that statement”
5-Year-Old Me: “Am I a joke to you?”
The Rabbit, Cartoon hell and the spinning cartoon monsters are all cool 😎
@@deedeereinert8166 I was seven. TERRIFYING!!!! 🥺😬😬🥺😬🥺
Imagine how traumatized these people would be after enduring that existence for a number of years.
What we 40 and 50 something’s are experiencing now with the millennials cancelling everyone.
@@WrvrUgoThrUR cringe
Every generation feels slighted move on! @WrvrUgoThrUR
Hahahaaaaa! 😂 The facial expressions that Uncle Walt does in this scene are HILARIOUS! So funny. The creatures are still scary too. Great scene.
Uncle Walt basically steals the show with his reactions
I love how the goldfish was part of the audience. That totally cracks me up. As for the demonic rabbit - he was AWESOME! Scared me when I saw it in the theater originally.
Thanks for uploading this!
This scared THE LIVING CRAP out of me when I saw this scene coming home from school one day... I didn't sleep for a week.
I know dude. I saw it when I was 7. Scared me to death.
I was 10 when I saw it in the theatres. I slept with my light on for a month.
My favourite Easter Bunny! I like the way it breathes and how they're all nervous because they know he's literally going to "pull something out of the hat"!
The guy playing the magician actually played another character in the Twilight Serise some time in the 60's. He plays a man who never ages and gets caught out by a Professor at a university he teaches in.
His name is Kevin McCarthy and he is probably best known for his role in Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
He was also in the 1970's remake of Body Snatchers, as the crazy guy yelling at traffic in the street.
By one of his wives...
He doesn't look like him. I suppose the age and moving from black and white to color will do it.
Long Live Walter Jameson (18 Mar. 1960)
They should call that rabbit Peter Rottentail
I was 6 when this came out and saw it when I was 8. As bad as this was the Tasmanian Devil with the big teeth and long nose that came out of the TV.....the graphics for that time...traumatizing. Talk about having a kid awake all night 🤣🤣🤣
I was 10. I moved my bed as far as I could from the window and slept with the light on for a month. I really think a lot of us were traumatized as kids by this movie...lol
Can't believe that's Nancy Cartwright far left who went onto bigger fame and fortune as the voice of Bart Simpson on the Simpsons tv series fame. Thought it was kind of funny when her character got eaten by a cartoon character in this segment.
jim68 Hope if her friend and mentor, Daws Butler was living at the time, saw Nancy’s performance in that segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie, he would been proud of her.
@@pernellharrison1292 , he died in 1988 (five years after this movie came out) so, yes, might have seen her performance.
Im glad others know who she is.
I remember this movie and it was traumatic and compelling.
I didn't even recognise that it was her!
Uncle Walt was my favorite. He stole the show (R I P).
The red and blue color gels, the Dutch angles, the fact that the terror rabbit is literally quivering with evil, Jesus Christ. This scared the piss out of me as a little kid.
The atmosphere is also perfectly done. The house has that perfectly gross, 80's "rubbery" vibe. I can't quite put my finger on it.
I wonder whatever became of that animatronic. I'll bet Rob Bottin still owns it.
Rob, btw, did FX for John Carpenter's _The Thing_, _The Howling_, _NOES 3_, _Total Recall_, _RoboCop_ and many other films.
Wrong, Kevin Yagher did the effects for "Nightmare on Elm Street 3", Bottin had nothing to do with it.
@@DeepEye1994 let’s write a new comment every 2 years
@@DeepEye1994 Who said that Bottin had anything to do with that?
@@Valkonnen The OP, that's what NOES3 means
it probably fell apart
The 80's Joe Dante, awesome
My sister took me to the local cinema to watch this when it came out. I was 7. It scared the crap out of me for years after
That scene scared me alot as a kid lol
That rabbit reminded me of the witch from the film the witches!
The girl in the painting freaked me out when I was little.
Ha I can totally see that!
Oliver Orton I can see it
Remember, this segment was directed by Joe Dante, who went on to direct Gremlins.
The ultimate Nightmare fuel!
Jiszelle New
That bunny has stuck in my head since I first saw it. Scary as fuck
I searched for this movie for the longest time! Thanks
One of my favorite movies
Kevin McCarthy was channeling his alter ego William Windom again
Whoever directed this movie is the master of scaring you and messing with your mind without even using jump scares. That bunny and the girls mouth closed haunted me as a kid and still to this day I think of it, but the movie really isn’t scary it just fks with your brain.
Well the director of this segment was Joe Dante, the same one who directed "Gremlins" and "The Howling"
@@Elliot_Ignotus bro that’s crazy you say that because gremlins is like the same thing. It really isn’t scary and more funny now when I watch it but that movie always fkd with me as a kid too 🤣 this movie, gremlins, and chucky always stuck with me even over actual scary movies, well sinister got me too
R.I.P., Kevin McCarthy, whose great performance here *made* this scene one of the great shockers of all time.
To Serve Man should have been included in this movie.
Simpsons did it.
It's a cookbook !!!!😁
add this to my nightmare fuel as a child
Nancy Cartwright was pretty cute in this film.
I remember seeing this as a kid. Not the entire scene because I saw the red lighting, the cinematography and I KNEW what was Going to happen so I didn't even attempt to watch it until I got older and this still scares the hell outta me lol.
I saw this when I was like 4 and ran away screaming. I never knew the movie so last night I finally watched this and man oh man memories came back.
They’re everywhere! They’re everywhere! The wascally wabbits are EVERYWHERE!!
I already knew that was Nancy Cartwright when she was like in her mid 20's
Scared the piss out of me as a young child
I watched this scene yesterday afternoon, and it initially startled me, and then when I saw the bunny, I LOL’ed. It was creepy yet also funny in my honest opinion. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Saw this when I was about 5. I'm 46 now which means I haven't slept in 41 years.
I thought I dreamed this movie up when I was little and this scene freaked me out all the time
I remember that in the theater when I was watching it. It’s totally freaked me out!
This actor was in the original TZ episode “It’s A Good Life” with Bill Mumy. ❤
Fuck this whole story. Most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Scares the shit out of me still all these years later.
Shit still creeps me to this day..lol
Now THATS a killer rabbit
Good old-fashioned practical special effects 👍
Its such a relief that I wasn't the only one that this movie low key fucked with me as a kid. That girls mouth and the bunny. Like the mouth was such a subtle part but somehow it rlly fked with you as a kid and then the bunny was just terrifying im so glad to see I wasn't the only one.
I remember the simpsons Halloween episode that was based upon this telekinetic brat!!!
This: ua-cam.com/video/Jlucx6rD7P4/v-deo.html
Seems more like reality warping.
It wasn't until now, in my 40s that I really get the allegory of this vignette. It could be an alcoholic, a narcissist, or some sort of borderline personality that keeps a family hostage. Once this personality has been allowed to have control it's damn near impossible to break free.
I once watched this while I was soooooo baked, I freaked out that night AND the next morning
Same thing happened to me last night, i was out of it, and this film was on and i was sitting there trying to figure out what the fuck is happening!? I was freaking out. Then I found out The Twilight Zone had a movie... Whattttt. This segment and the plane one with the alien/troll/goblin/gremlin/whatever it was... fucked me up..
DO IT UNCLE WALT!
Damn movie scared me as a kid, loved Kevin Mccarthy as Uncle Walt in segment 3 though.
if you can get jenna jameson circa '91 out of that hat, i'll stay
Look at Bart Simpson hiding back there in a tie. Love how he gets eaten later by a psychedelic cartoon alligator.
Let's be honest. Many modern kids like me probably saw that image at some point in childhood.
It's funny because I saw Poltergeist about 8 years old but this rabbit thing scarred me more at the time for some reason.
@F4billionyearzag0 same here, and the first scene with Dan Akroyd scared the shit out of me back then. lol
Damn this movie gave me the creeps as a kid!
Poor old Uncle Walt!
The first time I saw this flick I was tripping real hard on LSD.... this particular part was a mind blower... Bahaha
GuitarosaurusRex
I was 11 when I saw this masterpiece. Just the thought of every wish coming true. To this day, Anthony(the little boy in this scene) would be a god.
That looks like it's come straight from the bunny boiler ...😆.
Holy Crap!
This chick was hot!
Of all the remakes Hollywood does; I would not object to see this updated. It was cool back when I was a kid, I'd love to see what they could do with today's special effects.
Why? It would look worse. These are practical effects at their best.
Whoo, thanks for that awesome fact!! :)
My favorite part
Watched as a 7 years old fking traumatised
May Kevin McCarthy(Uncle Walt) R.I.P. Passed away 9/11/2010 at age 96. Quite the career he had.
All those memory with these scary scene when I was young.. They arent exactly scary as I remember..
I remember having a crush on that helen(guest), she was quite the hammer back then.... and the kid with the powers, the more i look at him, the more he looks like a younger version of ralph macchio, or he could be that kid from the movie, the never ending story.
I see Joe Dante got ahold of Chuck Jones' meth.
I actually looked at this and thought, "What the fuck am I looking at here?"
This entire segment is disturbing. Wish it was on youtube
As a kid this tarrafied me so much I has to run to my mom afterwards.
Fun fact: that girl is the voice of bart Simpson
Happy Easter
I think uncle Walter crapped his pants
the story that this (and, of course the original episode) is based on is seriously disturbing for anyone who's interested. Definitely worth reading.
Fun fact. The man who plays uncle Walt was in a twilight zone episode. He played Walter Jameson in long live Walter jameson
...wrong hat.
"I think it's 7 and a half!"
is this supposed to be an adaptation of "its a good life"? the whole magical powers and kid thing makes it feel like that
I loved this movie! A fuckin classic! I thank my parents for letting me watch shit like this when I was a kid! I was only 5yrs old when this came out!
When these puppet effects came up
I knew this was Joe Dante segment
I feel bad for that rabbit:
1:29 Hello? How did I get here?
1:43 WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME!?!?!?!?!?
yes not to mention the Simpsons did an episode paying homage to this,when Bart was the one with the powers lol I always thought that was a cool homage especially when Bart sent Homer into the television just like Ethel(Nancy Cartwright) gets put into the television.
Because who needs sleep, right?
What kind of sound does the demon rabbit does?
Cool. Wher can I get one of those?
1:44 Killer Chungus!